India, a nature loving country since ancient times

Vanaspatey Shanti, the hymn from yajurveda which prays fro peace across flora and fauna on Earth is an evident that India has always been an environment loving country so what has actually happened to our ancient beliefs. What are we forgetting? 
Taking care of environment, indeed is what we have overlooked. India is land which has a culture that has been intrinsically connected to nature since ancient times. In fact, India is the only country where natural resources are worshipped. Nature was always given due respect. It is our tradition that rivers are considered valuable and are revered. Environment which has given us a lot and is still giving us is just asking to take care of him as he did and is still doing. Environment wants little bit of nourishment, care and protection. In the contemporary times, it is believed that we are not aware about our tradition of giving respect to nature. It has now become the need of the hour that we should go back to our roots to protect Mother Earth and our future.
Now it has become necessary that we do our part in safeguarding environment's interest because if we will not realise our responsibility today, it will be too late...........

Recycling is now one click away!

Open the app-book a cab! Open the app-book a movie ticket!, Yep that's what we do nowadays to do almost everything we have an app. From paying electricity bills to shopping we can do it just by clicking on an app but what about having an app for recycling. Interesting, Right? A man from South Delhi too thought same way and brainstorm over it and decided why not? Let's have a recycling app so that we can recycle and get recycling services also quick and easy and POM POM came into being. Deepak Sethi, Co-Founder and Co-owner of Pom Pom pvt. Ltd. developed this app which is one of its kind that makes recycling super easy. It works exactly how most of the apps function, a guy from pom pom will come to your house take all the plastic bags, glass and plastic bottle and even newspapers and in return will give you reasonable price. 

Now you all must be thinking that kabadhi valas around our house does the same. But here is where pom pom is different. After collecting the recyclable waste, the company adds further value by segregating these and supplies them to industries that recycle  them to manufacture new products. This eliminates the middle men in the process and makes you feel like a Hero! 

Students across schools are learning recycling in their theory books but this app will make them practically understand the process of recycling. So, this app just not adds value to your wallet but also inculcates the recycling values in your children for a better tomorrow.
 #everdayisearthday #recyclingisfun #let'srecycle 

Sunita Narain- An inspiration

             Hi, everyone here I am with my another blog about a person whom I personally admire, Sunita Narain. An Indian environmentalist and political activist as well as a major proponent of the Green concept of sustainment development. I was fortunate to meet her during the New Delhi World book Fair 2018 in Delhi where in a session she highlighted how we can individually do our part for the environment which truly inspired me. Narain is director general of the India-based research institute the Center for Science and Environment, Director of the Society for Environmental Communications, and Editor of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth.
I attended a discussion session during the New Delhi World Book Fair where she was one of the panelist and with her powerful voice she started to share the actual problems of Delhi's environment, where she said that vehicular pollution pollutes Delhi's air majorly but other factors are lack of greenery in Delhi and poor waste management is increasing pressure on environment with each passing day. She also added that with measures like kitchen gardening, using vegetable leftovers as compost and planting more and more trees near roads will initiate the progress that we want to see.
Sunita began working with the Centre for Science and Environment in 1982. She has always believed that if we all give our part in saving the environment change will come and it will be evident. Over the years, this influential lady has developed the management and financial support systems need for the Centre, which has over 100 staff members and a dynamic program profile. In 1990s, she got involved with global environmental issues and she continues to work on these as researcher and advocate. In 2016 Narain received the IAMCR Climate Change Communication Research in Action Award and was in the Time Magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People.
 A simple woman who influences so many people and make them realise their individual responsibility towards environment should be saluted and through this blog I want to thank her for all her work and motivation that she gives to everybody that they too can make a difference.

Chandi Prasad Bhatt-India's first modern environmentalist

Chandi Prasad Bhatt, an environmentalist and social activist by profession who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh(DGSS) in Gopeshwar in 1964, which later became a mother organisation to the Chipko Movement, in which he was pioneers, and for which he was awarded the Ramson Magsaysay Award for community leadership in 1982. He was also awarded  with Padma Bhushan in 2005. He is also an author of Pratikar Ke Ankur, Future of Large Projects in the Himalaya , Ecosystem of Central Himalaya. Today this visionary man is known for his work on subaltern social ecology and considered one of India;s first modern environmentalist. Although, Bhatt has attended meetings in lowland India and abroad as a spokesperson for chipko, he has remained a man of his land. He along with his wife continue to live a simple life of their Himalayan neighbours. Bhatt is also a recipient of the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2013. He is truly an environment hero and inspiration for youngsters.

Sunderlal Bahuguna-One man Army

We often come across the problem of urbanisation which is increasing at an alarming level. Many people from different regions come to the developed states or metropolitan cities. Sunderlal Bahuguna was born in a small village called Maroda village in Tehri, like every area this place too had some problems. Bahuguna instead  of moving to the cities decided to solve the problems. A  follower of Gandhi ji, he never used any violent techniques to fight for the rights of environment. He always used non-violent ways to fight for preservation of forests. It is said that the ideas was of his wife and he implemented it.

He was the one to initiate, the great Chipko movement which was a revolutionary movement in the field of saving trees, he gave the slogan "Ecology is permanent economy". He also motivated people to voice against the colonial rulers in India's freedom movement. A Padma Vibhushan holder for environment conservation has always worked for environment interest and safeguard its resources.
To dedicate your whole for the  preservation of nature is really difficult for any person but this man did it all to make environment around him resist its beauty. An inspiring person and a environment lover has time to time worked for rivers, trees conservation so that he could give away his part of saving environment. 

Afroz Shah- A common man with extraordinary vision

We all love the sight of beautiful sea flowing onto our feet and we see a sunset in front of our eyes. This beautiful sight is expected by us if we go to any destination where beaches are there. Likewise, Mumbai is just  not famous for bollywood stars but also for its beauty of beaches. The reality is just opposite as most of the beaches in Mumbai is now a pure representation of dump, plastics  and all sorts of wastage. This is my personal experience of going to Juhu beach and expecting the beautiful sight and getting exactly opposite experience. Seeing this view of wastage in sea, I felt really bad and it really made me sad. I know that most of us would have felt in the same way but did we think of doing anything,  I don't think so.

Afroz Shah, a common man who also loved roaming around Versova beach as he had played there when he was a kid but when he grew up, this beach has lost its beauty which really affected him and urged him to do something extraordinary. A common man with extraordinary vision as he started cleaning this beach his hands and motivated many volunteers to work for this beach so that it can revive its beauty. This is noted to be the biggest citizen initiative to clean the beach, it took 109 weeks for him and his volunteers to show the world the citizen power and love for nature. It was his hard work that he was recognised by many actors and actresses  and they through twitter supported him. Even, the Big B came to the  beach and helped Alfoz to clean the beach. Afroz's journey was difficult as BMC many times interrupted in his working. Afroz now cleans Versova beach every sunday with the same passion and commitment. Through this bog I would like to appeal to everyone who love to travel to beaches, mountains and rivers to see its beauty, let us do our part of  not throwing waste, plastics into these bodies so that the beauty can be maintained. 

Vandana Shiva- A true environment Hero.

It is often a myth  that if a person is in the limelight then only he is doing something worth. But this is not the reason why people work for social cause. People work for a social cause when they really feel about it and workings are not restricted to just organising marches and all. Everyone has their own way of expressing their thoughts, so do Vandana Shiva. She is a well known environmental activist, Indian Scholar, food sovereignty advocate and author of 20 books. She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalisation and a figure  of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalisation movement.
As a daughter of a forests conservator and a farmer, Vandana had that nature loving since childhood, growing up she had developed interests in agriculture and food. Vandana has spent most of her life in the defence and celebration of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. In 2003, she was given a title of  'Environment Hero' by Time magazine. Her work on agriculture started in 1984 after the violence in Punjab and the gas leak in Bhopal from Union Carbide's pesticide manufacturing plant. She is a person who has worked extensively to promote biodiversity in agriculture to increase productivity, nutrition, farmer's income. A true Environment Hero, she is who has proved that individually we can make a difference.